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The Making of Tormore – Neil Gunn and the SNP
The Origins of the SNP The history of political parties with all their conflicts, splits, ideological positions, and power plays, is not my…
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The Making of Tormore – Neil Gunn
Neil Gunn was a novelist. His life’s work was fiction but he was an understandable, coherent individual, reserved yet sociable, someone generally liked,…
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The Making of Tormore – Finding a Site
“Some five years ago I received a letter from the late Lord Bracken (whom I had then not met) saying some friends…
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The Making of Tormore – Why Richardson? Why Bracken?
I want to use this post to double underline how singular the Tormore building is and how it would not have been anywhere near…
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The Making of Tormore – Brendan Bracken
The Tormore Connection Lewis Rosenstiel was an unpredictable boss. He was the only authority in his company but his decisions were affected by…
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The Making of Tormore – Lewis Rosenstiel
The man who built Tormore was Lewis Rosenstiel, head of Schenley Industries, one of the biggest liquor companies in the world, a titan…
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The Making of Tormore – Introduction
On the 20th July 1957, in Bedford, Harold Macmillan made a speech about rising prosperity and for the first time used the phrase…
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Deanston Linked With Loch Lomond
I thought I had closed my book on Deanston but what do you know – research is never finished as there is always…
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Arkwright and Deanston
You start with an interest in whisky but before you know it you are looking at cotton and the rise of the factory…
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